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Recomiendo ver la serie outlander

Get me a seat in that silver Delorean I want to go back to the past 🤟🏻

Spending a lot of time with my grandpa and great grandma in my childhood and hearing their crazy lifestories and how they just «fuckin’ moved on» from the most gut-wrenching shit, def gave me some calm hardwiring for life that i am very grateful for now later in life.⚡️

They did use to medicate "hysterical women" back in the day. Yes, I think the fact that life is easier has contributed to this, since it's a lot easier to avoid reality. My husband and I were just discussing this, as there's a difference in cultures in the north and south of Sweden, since the north gets really cold and people have to face reality or they will die, which is more like how it was in the olden times, even 30 years ago. I think another factor is that they've been telling kids, for the last 30 years, that everything is relative, and reality is up to me, I can change any part of it. This is extra evident in how they believe men and women can change and become the other. When rules and boundaries are removed, when the kids become the rulers instead of the one's being taught reality by adults, they never grow up. 25 year olds are now acting like 5 year olds, because they've never been told that how they're behaving isn't okay. In fact, like you mention, throwing tantrums have even been celebrated, coddled, and to some extent worshipped. "If I want all the attention I need to be the loudest." So, they celebrate victimhood, hysteria, and drama. Posting things like that online also adds to them behaving that way cause now their audience is even bigger, and algorithms promote it, so it's breading even more of it, cause people crave attention. Nostr might help change this...

I would also argue that we’re watching a generation of adults who grew up thinking the world owes them a favour. That everything is malleable and should bend to their will. Compared to previous generations who had very little influence or agency over their lives and just had to take it. Add outrage porn into the mix, and baby, you got a stew going.

Coddled and petulant children weren't swiftly corrected and the became coddled and petulant adults

Ohh well

That wonderful maternal instinct of the feminine, so necessary in the home to ensure all are provided for, now of significant influence in public office and big business, the domain for so long managed with the ‘don’t complain and get on with it’ masculine instinct, has made way for unprecedented levels of complaint, not only on the part of the neglected, those of genuine grievance, but any who would claim victimhood, the opportunist, those of questionable motive. Combine this with the magnification capability of a social media geared specifically to react to outrage, and you have a factor? This situation can emerge without anyone necessarily to blame. We evolved within a natural world which for so long demanded the co-operation of highly specialised roles simply so we could survive. Now it appears the restraint has been lifted, though not really. The cost is painfully apparent. Stay grounded. Maintain skills and smarts. Build co-operative community of value.

I think a major part missing here is the fact that people are significantly less healthy now. Now that I’ve fixed a large part of my health by following #animalbased, #peatstr & #primal principles (plus a healthy dose of critical thinking), I can see where my health was failing me. I’m more relaxed, more composed and more whole than I was years ago. I can see now why RFK Jr. chose to focus on health of Americans as his top priority. On the other hand, you have people who haven’t figured this out yet (which is a lot of people). Add in a mix of drugs (pharmaceutical or otherwise), plus a chaotic, confusing, collapsing fiat society, it’s no wonder many people are hysterical. Hysteria has always garnered attention. However, the commonality of it and incentives around it have increased. View quoted note →

I don't know, because I didn't live back then, but in my life most people are actually quite chill. It's just the crazy ones on TV. And here in Germany a historic hystericaly shrieking politician comes to mind.

I dont think the human brain was designed to process the number of data points that can daily flood the frontal lobe... without the proper filters this can lead to hysteria.

almost everyone is infested with parasites crawling thru their glymphatic system in the brain and the rest of the flesh; the various species hijack the hormone, neutrotransmitter, and nutrition systems, hence the chaos and retardation; oh yea, usually fighting them in the open makes the enemy stronger; read my reads;

Humans are hardwired to compare, everything. They especially compare their idea of themselves to their perception others. Social media has been a catalyst for this type of comparison and allowed people to compare themselves easily, with everyone, everywhere. This isn’t an accident, it has become the primary way to hijack and monetize your attention. Before social media (and television) you compared yourself to your friends and neighbors, in real life, who were largely in a similar position as yourself. This created a dynamic: constructiveness was valued over craziness. Advertising executives want you to have a relationship with what they’re selling. With an extreme increase in competition for attention (as communication became easier through print, then radio, then television, then the internet) while simultaneously lowering the opportunity costs to create and maintain relationships (mainly through social media) the dynamic shifted from constructiveness to craziness as advertisers began to reward those that could hijack the most attention. The like button created instant reward from people that users had real relationships with and this was the Trojan horse for shifting the value of those relationships to the platforms and advertisers. Eventually, real relationships were replaced by transactional relationships. These no longer require mutual benefit to maintain because the incentive (money) no longer comes from the person giving their attention. That person is just signaling that their attention has been captured through likes, follows. The advertisers are the ones who pay, they pay only for access to brains, and so long as “content creators” can keep collecting attention above the attrition rate they will get rewarded by those advertisers. In this dynamic, crazy gets rewarded over constructiveness. View quoted note →